As a new climber, knots, lingo, and technique are thrown at you left and right. What many new climbers are rarely introduced to is how to fall. Many people naturally pick it up, so why teach it? Learning the proper way to fall is about as important as learning how to tie your eight knot.… Continue reading “If you aren’t falling, you aren’t trying hard enough.”

At my job, I have to start off with the scary things first: climbing is inherently dangerous. On the everyday end, you could end up with scrapes andbruises. On the extreme end, you could end up dead. After you have been climbing for awhile, it is more likely you will end up somewhere in the… Continue reading Risk and Reward

“What got you into climbing? Why do you climb?” Different people have very different answers to these questions. I haven’t heard a bad answer yet: to socialize, to lose weight, to be challenged physically or mentally, to get stronger, to have fun… The awesome part of climbing is that it provides all of these things… Continue reading I climb because…

In climbing, there are a lot of different knots that can be used for a lot of different things. This post is about the knots used to tie-in (tying the rope to your climbing harness) for rope climbing. The tie-in setup I will explain is the figure 8 follow-through (FEFT) knot with a strangle knot. The Save-Your-Life… Continue reading It’s Knot That Bad…

So you started rock climbing and you want to climb all the things! The super cool route that has a weird baby head hold on it. The route over in the corner with all blue holds that you saw some strong chick hang from her toes (bat hang) on. But definitely not that route that… Continue reading VFun and 5.NahBrah

As humans, we tend to beat up our bodies a lot. The human body can take a lot and work through a lot: broken bones, pulled tendons/muscles, missing limbs, working out with bronchitis, eating sixty doughnuts in nine minutes, child birth… (I’ve literally never experienced any of the things previous mentioned, but I can imagine.)… Continue reading Warm Up, Swarm Up